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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
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Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
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Shampoo
Elbows
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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